Tues., Jan. 19: Shift Happens


Zooming In - Zooming Out

Zoom (wordless picture book by Istvan Banyai)
  • choose a Zoom card that represents your time at ISA or a memorable ISA experience
  • introduce self and explain choice of Zoom image
  • work as a group to put the cards together (organize/sequence them)
Debrief: How did the process of organizing the images relate to your experiences at ISA?
What does the resulting product suggest about the world? (different perspectives, interconnectedness)

Introduce Course Description and Global Leadership Performance Outcomes
Discuss the NetGenEd 2010 Project and watch Don Tapscott book promo


Shift Happens

Did You Know? 2.0 by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod or "Did You Know 3.0" (2008 version) or "Shift Happens" (U2 "Beautiful Day" remix) See additional resources on the Shift Happens wiki


The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learners will have . . . 10 to 14 jobs . . .by their 38th birthday.
Many of today’s college majors didn’t exist 10 years ago. What will they study 10 years from now? We are living in exponential times.
The amount of technical information is doubling every two years. By 2010, it’s predicted to double . . . every 72 hours.
We are currently preparing students for jobs and technologies that don’t yet exist . . . in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.

Questions for Discussion:
What stood out to you?
What does the message of the video mean to you?
How do you think you are you meant to respond?

Thurs., Jan. 21: Introduction to Global Leadership


Leadership in the Global Age

What is your concept of a global leader?
Express in a word (individually), post and discuss
Pairs create a nonlinguistic representation, share and post

Imagine Leadership

Another video by XPLANE
Six-minute video asks viewers to imagine how leadership can address some of the most pressing problems in the world, including a vibrant economy, society, and environment

Nitin Nohria and Amanda Pepper of Harvard Business School's Leadership Initiative collaborated with XPLANE to create this video in order to generate a discussion of the value and importance of leadership to address some of society's most pressing problems.
"It is my desire to inspire people of all ages and social demographics to think about leadership on a broad level, contemplate what it means to them and what individual impact they can have when it comes to leading," says Nohria

Debrief Imagine Leadership video using Microlab protocol in triads (be sure to follow the Microlab Guidelines)
  • What part of the message resonanted most with you?
  • What do you think is the author's intended message of the video?
  • What are you feeling and thinking after seeing the video?

Tues., Jan. 26: The Power of the Internet and You


The Person of the Year is YOU

Read cover story from Time magazine's person of the year 2006
Time_Person_of_Year_2006.jpg

Save the Last Word for Me
  • Select a sentence or short passage from the text that you would like to discuss in your group.
  • To start a new round, introduce your selection.
  • Let everyone else respond to the selection first. Then you have “the last word.”
  • Take turns until everyone has had the chance to introduce a sentence/passage from the essay for discussion.

Speaking of comments on YouTube . . .

Based on the conversation about YouTube commentary, we might watch this PSA about cyperbullying

"If Your Kids Are Awake, They're Probably Online"

~New York Times, Jan. 20, 2010
A recent Kaiser Family Foundation study found that American youth, ages 8-18 spend more than 7.5 hours a day using a smart phone, computer, television, or other electronic device. With all the multitasking, they pack 11 hours of content into those 7.5 hours.

A Day in the Internet

Infographic from OnlineEducation.net

Consumers Become Producers - Prosumer

Questionairre: Have you ever . . .
  • posted a customer review on a shopping site such as Amazon.com?
  • posted a comment on a news story or blog?
  • posted a video to the web?
  • posted photos on the web?
How about your parents? grandparents?
How did consumers and citizens get this kind of information in the past?

The Chaos Scenario

According to On the Media host Bob Garfield, we are in the midst of a new world order.
In his book, The Chaos Scenario , he digs into the digital revolution that he says will devastate mass media, and make you the next mogul.


Additional Resource: TOTN interview, Aug. 6 2009 (Lego story starts @ 12:34)

Thurs., Jan. 28: UsNow

Juniors testing
Seniors watch the UsNow documentary
See the additional resources on the UsNow website
Us Now - A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government, and the internet

Mon., Feb. 1: Citizen Journalism


You Are What You Share

We-think by Charles Leadbeater (chapters 1-3 available online)

Read Excerpt from We-Think (pp. 3-4 of Chapter One)

Engage in the Text Rendering Experience
Select a SENTENCE you think/feel is particularly significant
Select a PHRASE you think/feel is particularly significant
Select a WORD you think/feel is particularly significant

Copy and paste your SENTENCE, PHRASE, and WORD into Etherpad
Create Wordle of text rendering from We Think

We Think

Animation outlining the ideas in the book . . .

the audience is taking to the stage . . . mass innovation . . . you are what you share

Additional Resources: We-Think videos - presentations by Charles Leadbeater

Charles Leadbeater on innovation (TED)



Social Media's Impact on History

Clay Shirky: How social media can make history (TED)
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.


"citizen" "many to many pattern" "producer and consumer" [prosumer]
role of social media in 2008 election

Students record key words and phrases using Etherpad
Create a Wordle with students' notes from Clay Shirky

Additional Resource: Exhibit at the Newseum: "Old School Meets New Media in 2008 Presidential Campaign"

Digital Citizenship Reflection

What does it mean to be a digital citizen?
How would you rank your current digital citizenship and why?
Here are the students' Digital Citizenship Reflections

Wed., Feb. 3: Social Responsibility

Social responsibility in light of globalization and the new technology landscape

Web 2.0 means anyone with internet access can contribute content to the web.
What are the implications for you? as a consumer? as a producer? as a participant? as a contributor?

The Video Republic

A new theatre of public information has emerged, spread across the internet, television, and campaigns. This emerging Video Republic is an alternative realm of creation and exchange. Who inhabits, shapes and regulates the Video Republic and what is its future?

Video is changing young people into reporters, commentators, distributors, directors, spokesmen for their own lives, beliefs, and opinions
This is a new public realm, a virtual community, an expressive democracy . . . be a part of it.

Four Corners Activity: agree, disagree, strongly agree, strongly disagree
The video republic is growing . . .
  • But if it's democracy, do politicians have any business here?
  • If it's free speech, should everyone be able to make a video?
  • If it's public space, should private companies own it?
  • "It's time to connect the energy in the video republic with the mainstream."

The Positive Potential of the Internet

Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness (TED)


How the Internet works (0:00 - 5:53)
" . . . can lead to real trouble."
Pakistan YouTube example (5:53 - 9:11)
" . . . once you start looking for it."
Wikipedia (9:11 - 14:14)
Jimbo = Jimmy Wales; "ubiquitous" - word of the week
" . . . stuff like that as they go along."
Blogs, photos, robots (14:14 - 17:33)
" . . . one corner of Washington Square Park to another."
Hitchhiking (17:33 - 19:52)


Ian Goldin: Navigating our global future (TED)

What are the greatest challenges and greatest opportunities described in this talk?
How can we address these challenges and help fulfill these opportunities as 21st-century global leaders?

Exit Ticket: Social responsibility, technology, and global leadership . . .

What is your social responsibility now and in the future?
How are technological innovations relevant to your future as a global leader?

Fri., Feb. 5: So What? Now What?


What is Web 2.0?

The Machine is Us/ing Us video by Michael Wesch
"Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes. [Wesch] was inspired to make this video while writing a paper about web 2.0. Struggling to find a way to put it into words, [he] decided to make this video to show it rather than tell it."

Poetic transcription of the video available here on Wesch's blog


Digital text is above all…hyper.
hypertext can link
With form separated from content, users did not need to know complicated code to upload content to the web,
"There's a blog born every half second."
and it’s not just text…
two sites can “mash” data together
Who will organize all of this data?
we will
we are the web

Web 2.0 is linking people…
…people sharing, tracing, and collaborating…
We’ll need to rethink copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves

So What Does This Mean for Us?

How is the new media landscape having us re-think . . . ?

Debrief video with gallery walk/chalk talk protocol - key terms each on different piece of chart paper around the room:
copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves

What Might Be Next?

Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the Web (TED)